Kafkaesque

Oops.

Pamela Rioles Saeed says one morning, she got an email from DHS that said she must leave the U.S. within seven days because her parole was revoked.

But Rioles Saeed is an American citizen born in Boston. She said this letter baffled her.

First question: how was this addressed?

“I thought this was for one of my clients but then i saw that it was addressed only to me," she said. “With the dot gov, it said it was from CBP.”

No, the internsl address.

After she got the email, she spoke with other attorneys in her chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association to see if she was the only one who received this letter.

“Another attorney confirmed that other attorneys in his office received them,” she said.

Seb Gorka warned ya! "The first thing we do, let's deport all the immigration lawyers."

DHS sent Scripps News Tucson a statement that said notices may have been sent to unintended participants. "CBP has issued notices terminating parole for individuals who do not have lawful status to remain," DHS press said in the statement. "This process is not limited to CBP One users and does not currently apply to those paroled under programs such as U4U and OAW.CBP used the known email addresses of the alien to send notifications. If a non-personal email—such as an American citizen contact—was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients. CBP is monitoring communications and will address any issues on a case-by-case basis.

You can ask for your habeas hearing from CECOT.

For U.S. citizens in the same situation, Rioles Saeed said to ignore the email and for those who are not citizens, to contact an immigration attorney.

“There is a true recklessness coming from the government and shows an intimidating attitude towards our immigrant clients,” she said.

Yeah; I’m not sure ignoring it is sound legal advice right now; at least if you live in Florida. Or just drive through there.

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, 20, was arrested Thursday evening by Florida Highway Patrol and charged under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since early this month. Details of Gomez-Lopez’s arrest and detention were first reported by the Florida Phoenix news site.

After inspecting his birth certificate, Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans said during the hearing that “this is indeed an authentic document,” but that she did not have jurisdiction beyond finding no probable cause for the charge.

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Nonetheless, he remains detained locally at ICE’s request, said Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson at the Florida Immigrant Coalition who attended Thursday’s hearing. “Everything tracks for him being sent to an ICE detention center,” he told NBC News in a phone interview.

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Gomez-Lopez was in a vehicle with other passengers and was traveling to work from Georgia when they were stopped after entering Florida.

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Kennedy compared the situation to Franz Kafka’s novel “The Trial” in which man must defend himself against a charge but has no information about it.

“It’s like this bureaucratic, dystopian nightmare of poorly written laws,” Kennedy said. “We are living in a time when this man could get sent to El Salvador because, what, is he going to be treated like a stateless person?”

Kennedy was referring to the hundreds of immigrants who have been sent by the Trump administration to an El Salvador megaprison after they were accused of being gang members under the wartime Alien Enemies Act. Families, attorneys and some U.S. legislators have not been able to have any contact with them.

Florida, man. Gonna have to start treating The Trial as a documentary.